Mitt Romney claim named 'lie of the year'

[MaxShimba]

Mitt Romney's claim in a campaign ad that President Barack Obama "sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China" earned PolitiFact's "Lie of the Year," the site announced on Wednesday.

"The Jeep ad was brazenly false," Angie Drobnic Holan wrote in her analysis.

The Romney campaign ran the ad in the final weeks of the campaign, drawing sharp rebukes from the automakers and public condemnation from the Obama campaign.

Romney first claimed Jeep was moving to China in a late October campaign speech in Ohio, citing "reports," which he later identified in his ad as a story by Bloomberg News.

Romney earns PolitiFact

 

[MaxShimba]

So, Romney gave "LIE OF THE YEAR", and the same dude wanted to be a US President and supported by GOP Conservatives.

Pathetic GOP

 

[MaxShimba]

Mittenites will never come to this thread,

 

[Kiranga]

Hiyo haijaifikia "Syria is Iran's sea route".

 

[Cynic]

out of desperation.. everythings was falling apart after 6 yrs of 4 bn campaign

 

[MaxShimba]

Politifact's Lie of the Year, for his Jeep-to-China line of bullshit

Congratulations, Willard!

It was a lie told in the critical state of Ohio in the final days of a close campaign -- that Jeep was moving its U.S. production to China. It originated with a conservative blogger, who twisted an accurate news story into a falsehood. Then it picked up steam when the Drudge Report ran with it. Even though Jeep's parent company gave a quick and clear denial, Mitt Romney repeated it and his campaign turned it into a TV ad.

And they stood by the claim, even as the media and the public expressed collective outrage against something so obviously false.

People often say that politicians don't pay a price for deception, but this time was different: A flood of negative press coverage rained down on the Romney campaign, and he failed to turn the tide in Ohio, the most important state in the presidential election.

PolitiFact has selected Romney's claim that Barack Obama "sold Chrysler to Italians who are going to build Jeeps in China" at the cost of American jobs as the 2012 Lie of the Year.
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http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2012/dec/12/lie-year-2012-Romney-Jeeps-China/

 

[Father of All]

To me Mitt Romney was a letdown of the year. Thank Lord he did not become presidenza of US.

 

[MaxShimba]

Myth Robney, one of the weirdest individual.